Munsiyari and Sarmoli, gateway villages to the Johar Valley, are the last points with motor vehicle access. This affords the villages a level of connectedness that the other villages in the valley are not provided. ...

Like other transit agencies in the United States, King County Metro has faced a reduction in State funding and suffered revenue loses as a result of the recent economic recession. Metro faces an operating budget shortfall ...

Despite efforts made in the past decade to curb excessive energy consumption and the corresponding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, both energy consumption and GHG emissions are expected to increase in coming years. Not ...

Land-cover and climate change pose significant challenges to ecological planning and management. Ecological responses to these changes are mediated by the interactions between landscape structure, biodiversity, and ecosystem ...

The purpose of streets is far more than to just get from one place to another. Substantial progress has been made in establishing operative definitions of some of the qualities that make streets great. But progress has ...

This thesis aims to make historic preservation a more effective instrument for revitalizing small town communities by expanding its focus to include industrial landscape preservation. This concept provides new ways to ...

THE LAKE CITY COMMONS: A CATALYTIC APPROACH FOR GENERATING URBAN COHERENCE By Katy Haima, 2014, 99 pgs. Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Ron Kasprisin This thesis explores the role of urban design in generating coherence ...

As a hot topic in the field of urban planning, whether growth control is an effective planning tool overall and its potential impacts on land value have been discussed by a lot of literature, yet many of the studies reached ...

Portland, Oregon has attracted continuing attention for its achievements in planning, urban design, and growth management, and for its participatory approach to this work. They have stopped freeways, rebuilt their downtown, ...

With respect to the current unprecedented Chinese industrialization and urbanization in human history, this dissertation studies three themes: rural migrants, governance, and manufacturing towns. It identifies the few ...

The Lower Duwamish River (LDR) estuary is an 11-mile stretch of river that contains the core of industrial activity in the Seattle area. As the city's only river, the LDR also provides important habitat for many of the ...

The high concentration of poverty in the U.S. has been a significant problem since the turn of the twentieth century. A high concentration of people in urban areas without decent social, economic, and political means to ...

Due to its position in the public realm, low public-investment costs and popularity among residents, mobile food vending presents a potentially effective means of improving streetscapes and amenities within a neighborhood. ...

Sustainability-related reporting by companies and organizations has been developed with the growth of the notion of sustainability since the 1970s. More recently, Triple Bottom Line (TBL) reporting, one form of ...

Walking and environmental correlates have been increasingly investigated in the field of public health and transportation. Recent development in real-time activity and location tracking technology provides a unique opportunity ...

A tangle of health, quality-of-life, environmental, and economic concerns has prompted Seattle and other major US cities to pursue strategies that encourage more trips by foot, bike, and transit. Yet increasing bicycling ...

In November of 2012 the citizens of Washington State voted to legalize the cultivation, processing, sale, and use of recreational marijuana. As legalization unfolds, the experiences of local governments will inform the ...